The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-02-24


has written letter to the News ant
Courier, defending tho action of tin
State Senate on different matters con
sidered at the recent session. After re
viewing tho articles of the several critic
who have published thcir views in tho
newspapers, Senator Youm@ns says:
In resume of this chapter Of fault
finding we note three specific complaints
against the Senate: The emasculatlon o
the bill providing for experimental stu
tions; tho rejection of thC resolution
providing for travelling committee K
Investigate the modus opcrandl OF ugri
cultural colleges III other StGtcs; tho
postponement of the bill to rcorgWnizc
tho department of agriculture. EilSt
the bill to provide for experimental sta
tions was manned III the House and it.
original design frustrated by an amend.
mcnt providing for two stutiOUS instead
Of one, as ut first intended. The mtrn-
ton of the iramer Of this bill Mas to have
1T follow III lis passage tho Eiii to reor-
ganlZo the department OF agriculture,
and that the SO, OO0 appropriated be cX-
pended under the auspices of new
board Of agriculture upon ono station,
the ultimate establishment Of an aglicul-
tural and mechanical college. The bill
to rcorganizc the department Of agricul-
turo having bcCn postponed by the Sen
ate, and the amendment to tnis bill
having been adopted by the Eouse con
trary to the expectation OF is author,
thus shon of that symmetry OF its sur
roundmgs, crudcly amended in the
hurry OF Cf legislation, was scat to the
Senate, lncongruOus III shape and incor-
rect oven IN ITS phrasCOloGy. All the
Nenat' proposed to 90 except to Strike
out the provisions for the travelling com
mlttee, which, L will state en- passaut,
was an amendment proposed by q
Charleston lawyer, and not contemplated
IN the original bill, and which amend
ment Oh the part Of the Senate WAS aftcl-
wards accepted by the House, was to
make the bill cOnior,n to its altered sur
roundlngs-the attempts to effect Which
think were afterwards improved upon
by committee Of conference with the
approval of the Senate.
Second. Also tho rejection b. the
Senate Of Representative EraWtov's rcsu-
luton providing for travelling commit
tee to investigate the practical operations
Of agricultural colleges in other Stutcs,
the Senate had already passed q bill the
provisions OF which instructed the board
OF agriculture 10 take into careful con-
sldcratlon the plans, specifications, cost.
&c., of the erection Of an ayricultural
college, and did not see the prUpricty Of
passing this resolution, appointing, in
addition to what it had alrcuGy done, a
committee to further investigate, with
out any limit as TO what this inycstiga.
tlon WAS to cost. Indeed, 50 .ur as IL,
PROVISIONS OF this resolution were con
ccrned, the committee thus appointed
could have travelled the whole ycar until
the next session and have expended many
thousands Of dollars.
Third. OF the thrco complaints, the
dissatisfaction Of Captain Iiliman and
his allies has been manifested most
plainly, perhaps, towards the postpone
ment by the Senate Of the bill to rCOr-
game the department OF aGricuturc, the
passage OF which, Says DIR. IiniaI, would
make the "Iarmcra' movement" one Of
the departments Of the State Govern
ment
Shortly after thc introduction of this
bill into the House, AM some time be-
fore it reached its second reading, as u
planter and chairman o. thc Senate com
mittce on agriculture + approached Dr..
Tindal, the author Of the bill, 10 aAcrr-
tain what was sought to he accomplished
by 1t. When informed that the object
was to increase the board OF agriculture
and to popularize it by bringing it closer
to the people, proposed, if he would
modify the bill SO as to increase the
board by the election at tho then present
session OF the Legislature Of an addi-
tlonal member from each Of tho five lln-
represented Congressional districts ,,nd
the election Of five more at The next
session, when the terms Of the present
board would expire, and VIC could act
without any di8rcSpcct TO the present
board, L would unite with him to secure
the passage Of the bill; but l positively
Declined. after what l considered rcck-
less and fnllacious charges Of eXtrava-
8ance and incomplete Lcy repeatedly pre-
feTCd against the present board and
commissioner of agriculture, to support
any measure looking to their curt and
unceremOniOus dismissal from Office. /
further proposed to DIR. TindaI, if it was
the real interest OF the farmers he was
seeking, to introduce joint resolution
1nstructlng the State treasurer to refund
to tho department OF agriculture all
ulo1CJS dIlhlilS from VIC ltCCllSC TAX,
which had been expended for general
State purposes, to be applied by the
board OF agriculture for the benefit OF
the farmers, upon experimental stations
1 soon became aware, however, that in.
stead of the advancement Of the rcui in.
terest Of the farmers through the regular
channels of Legislation, the first and i'm.
mediate object sought to bo accomplish,
ed by the prime factors of this agitation
was, as DIR. Wndul has since SO lucidl}
stated in his interview with Il reporter o.
the News and Courier, published on tn,
24th ult., to place the board Of agricul
lure at the head of the ''Farmcrs' move
ment,| as it is called, to act in tn,
capacity OF bureau for the organization
OF the farmers, upon plan SO 'thoronoI
and complete as to comrlonco, like In
organization Of tho Democracy, will
clubs Imagine suck an orgonizatio,
perfected. The dopm tmont Of I,iIrTi ooricni
ture converted into bureau Of or%@nila
tion with it, headonarters at ColSmLi"
maintained and supported by tovc
levied by the General AssonnhJ,y no',I"